Komunyakaa wrote this poem the day after the Sandy Hook tragedy as a way of offering healing and compassion.
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CLEAR ALL
For Saeed Jones, generations collapse into seconds during an American week of chaos and sorrow.
Saeed Jones, reading from his book, "Prelude to Bruise", at Art Share LA.
Saeed Jones reads "The Blue Dress in Mother's Closet" and "Boy in a Whalebone Corset" at the 2014 Dodge Poetry Festival.
Prelude to Bruise is a song from a tightrope, balancing ecstatic existence and the chaos that always threatens to engulf a life on the margins.